Examines the history of state and territorial policies, laws, and judicial decisions pertaining to Native Americans from 1790 to 1880. This book reveals how states and territories extended their legislative and judicial authority over American Indians during this period.
Deborah A. Rosen is a professor of history at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York and coeditor of Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607¿1789, volumes 15, 16, and 17.
